BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL with Sara Pajunen

The Cedar Presents

BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL with Sara Pajunen

Saturday, November 22, 2025 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM

All Ages

Seated

$25 Advance, $30 day of show

This is a seated show with general admission, first-come-first-served seating. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request access accommodations, please go to our Access page.

For Cedar presented shows, online ticket sales typically end one hour before the door time, and then, based on availability, tickets will be available at the door. Tickets purchased at the door will include a $1 Eventbrite fee.

For the month of November, The Cedar will be accepting donations for our neighborhood food shelf: https://pillsburyunited.org/programs/food-distribution/

We will be collecting the five most requested items by participating families: Dry Lentils, Olive Oil, Vegetable Oil, Flour and Sugar.

Bins will be available for donations in our lobby. We invite ticket holders to bring any of these items when they arrive for their performance. If you wish to contribute to the drive outside of performance nights, message us at info@thecedar.org to arrange a time to stop by.

Brian Coyle is a fabulous community organization doing transformative work in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Thanks for joining all of us at The Cedar who wish to support vulnerable families during this time of wide-spread hardship.

ABOUT THIS SHOW

Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes.

BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL

Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of Celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes – and she’s taken them to the global stage. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into uncharted territory. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, and her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music. One can talk about Brìghde’s awards (BBC Young Folk Award; BBC Horizons Award; SAY Award nominee) and her wide array of collaborators (Caroline Polachek; Colin Stetson; Gruff Rhys; Aidan O'Rourke...) but after it all, her music speaks for itself.

Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.

• Visit her Instagram page here

Sara Pajunen

Sara Pajunen will be joined by Maja Radovanlija on guitar and Nicholas Gaudette on bass for an exploration of Balkan and Nordic folk tunes, originals, and free improvisation. 

To learn more about Sara Pajunen:

• Visit her website here

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